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Palaeography for Family and Local Historians 2nd Revised Edition
Palaeography for Family and Local Historians : 2nd Revised Edition
Family and local historians frequently encounter the challenge posed by the writing, and sometimes the translation, of the records which might most enab...
Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records
Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records
Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and var...
Tracing Your House History
Tracing Your House History : A Guide for Family Historians
Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house – of their home – needs to read this compact, practical handbook. Whether you live in a manor ...
A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
An interest in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short against a word or term which is not understood or only imperfectly understood. This dictionary is i...
A Secretary Hand ABC Book
A Secretary Hand ABC Book
This book is a guide to reading old documents. It takes the reader through the alphabet with examples of how letters might appear. Each letter is matched with relevant words and illustrations i...
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Ecclesiastical Courts, Officials & Records: Sex, Sin And Probate
Ecclesiastical Courts Officials and Records : Sex, Sin and Probate
An easy-to-understand explanation of the complex organisation and procedures of Church Courts and their officials. Ecclesiastical Courts granted probat...
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Essential Maps For Family Historians
Essential Maps For Family Historians
Maps are an essential tool in the search for places connected with the lives of our ancestors, helping us to make sense of how and where they lived. Houses, farms, businesses, factor...
Examples of Handwriting 1550-1650
Examples of Handwriting 1550-1650
This title contains handwriting examples, both for the alphabet and of commoner forenames for the period.
This book also includes a number of varieties, so as to form a nucleus for ref...
Latin For Local And Family Historians
Latin For Local And Family Historians : A Beginner's Guide
Latin is the language of a vast quantity of source material but despite the popularity of researching family and local history there has been no recent textbook...
Reading Latin Epitaphs
A Handbook for beginners ( with illustrations)
This compact handbook enables users to quickly and accurately read Latin epitaphs in churches, no matter what their knowledge of the language is. John Parker has reproduced...
Understanding Documents for Genealogy and Local History
Understanding Documents for Genealogy & Local History
Genealogists and local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death and census record available, and are adept at using the internet for research. Howe...
Wills Of Our Ancestors
Wills Of Our Ancestors : A Guide for Family and Local Historians
What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? ...
A Handbook of Dates For Students Of British History
A Handbook Of Dates For Students Of British History : New Edition
A Handbook of Dates is an unrivalled reference book for historians. It provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables which allow the calculation of the d...
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A Latin Glossary For Family And Local Historians
Latin Glossary For Family Historians
This booklet is not intended to be a comprehensive dictionary of all the Latin words likely to be found in record of interest to family historian. It does, however, aim to include mo...
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Chancel Repair Liability
Chancel Repair Liability : How To Research It
Suggests sources of chancel repair liability, provides background information and shows how to calculate chancel repair liability.
Designing English
Designing English : Early Literature on the Page
Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did...
Dorset Manorial Documents : A Guide for Local & Family Historians
Dorset Manorial Documents : A Guide for Local & Family Historians
Manorial documents are a useful and yet underused source for local and family historians in Dorset. They illustrate many aspects of the lives of ordinary...
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Front Door To The Past
Front Door To The Past
The book is a detailed work that straddles a period from Ughtred's and her nuns' receipt of the land in question around 1152 to the 21st century. The modern part of the story begins in the late 19...
Historical Research Using British Newspapers
Historical Research Using British Newspapers
Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, h...
Illuminated Manuscripts
Illuminated Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration usin...
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